Amsterdam GPs to help hospitals with Covid care
4 years, 1 month ago

Amsterdam GPs to help hospitals with Covid care

NL Times  

General practitioners in Amsterdam are teaming up with local hospitals to help provide care for Covid-19 cases. They, along with care organizations in the capital, expect to be able to discharge 50 hospitalized patients earlier per week if GPs care further for them at home, internist-infectiologist Marc van der Valk of Amsterdam UMC said to AD. "We often see that people who are over the hill and recovering still need some oxygen for quite some time, while they are otherwise stable," Van der Valk said to the newspaper. According to Van der Valk, this could reduce the average hospital stay for a Covid-19 patient from 7 or 8 days to 5 or 6 days. Van der Valk added that sending a patient home early will only be done with the consent of their GP.

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Dutch Covid hospital total back below 600; New infections hit 80-day low
2 years, 4 months ago

Dutch Covid hospital total back below 600; New infections hit 80-day low

NL Times  

Hospital in the Netherlands were treating fewer than 600 patients with Covid-19 for the first time since June 24. Meanwhile, fewer than 9,000 people tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus this past week, the lowest weekly total since the beginning of June. There were nearly 700 patients in hospital care a week ago, meaning the patient total has dropped off …

Covid hospital total falls to 75-day low; No weekend hospital data expected
2 years, 8 months ago

Covid hospital total falls to 75-day low; No weekend hospital data expected

NL Times  

Hospitals in the Netherlands were treating 1,238 people with Covid-19 on Friday afternoon, the lowest total in 75 days. The intensive care total rose by seven to 101, the first time the figure has been above one hundred in five days. After falling to 86 on Monday, the lowest level in more than eight months, the ICU total creeped back …

Hospitals treating 15% fewer Covid-19 patients than last Tuesday
2 years, 8 months ago

Hospitals treating 15% fewer Covid-19 patients than last Tuesday

NL Times  

Hospitals in the Netherlands were treating 1,739 patients with Covid-19 on Tuesday afternoon. The current hospital tally included 103 patients in intensive care unit, a net decrease of one since Monday afternoon when taking admissions, discharges, and deaths into account. Dutch hospitals admitted 159 new Covid-19 patients in the past 24 hours, including 13 sent directly to intensive care. On …

Covid hospital total rises, but ICU figures fall; Infections lower during storm
2 years, 10 months ago

Covid hospital total rises, but ICU figures fall; Infections lower during storm

NL Times  

Hospitals in the Netherlands were treating 1,611 people with Covid-19 on Monday afternoon, the first time the patient total has increased in six days. Dutch hospitals admitted 151 people with the coronavirus disease between Sunday and Monday afternoon, including 10 who were sent directly to an intensive care unit. On average, hospitals admitted 189 patients each of the past seven …

Netherlands not ready for another pandemic
2 years, 10 months ago

Netherlands not ready for another pandemic

NL Times  

The Netherlands is facing "major challenges for infectious disease control," the Capacity Body said in a recent report. Dozens of additional infection doctors must be trained as soon as possible if the Netherlands hopes to be ready for the next pandemic, the advisory council said, AD reports. According to the advisory council, the coronavirus pandemic "magnified preexisting bottlenecks in infectious …

Dutch hospitals to start spreading out Covid patients to keep care accessible
3 years, 2 months ago

Dutch hospitals to start spreading out Covid patients to keep care accessible

NL Times  

On Wednesday, the National Coordination Center for Patient Distribution will again start with the national distribution of coronavirus patients due to pressure on hospitals. By relieving the burden on the regions with the most coronavirus patients, the LCPS hopes to keep healthcare accessible everywhere. Ernst Kuipers, chairman of the National Network for Acute Care, expects the number of coronavirus patients …

Hospitals on the verge of delaying regular care as Covid admissions rise
3 years, 2 months ago

Hospitals on the verge of delaying regular care as Covid admissions rise

NL Times  

As the number of coronavirus-related hospital admissions rises, Dutch hospitals are again starting to delay plannable surgeries and regular care, NRC reports after surveying the large hospitals. The number of Covid-19 patients increased rapidly last week, and partly due to high absenteeism, the hospital could not absorb the influx. "And if the number gets too high, then scenarios are ready …

Dutch GP's struggling under after-Covid work pressure
3 years, 2 months ago

Dutch GP's struggling under after-Covid work pressure

NL Times  

General practitioners in the Netherlands are struggling with a heavy workload in catching up on care postponed during the Covid-19 pandemic while also struggling with staff shortages. They often have to answer phones themselves because they can't find an assistant, or can't go on holiday for rest because they can't find a replacement for themselves, GP's association LHV told NOS …

Dutch hospitals struggling with Covid-deniers
3 years, 4 months ago

Dutch hospitals struggling with Covid-deniers

NL Times  

Hospitals throughout the Netherlands are dealing with seriously ill patients or family members who refuse to believe they have the coronavirus, because according to them it doesn't exist, AD reported after surveying hospitals. "We are sometimes told by relatives of those who have to be admitted to hospital with serious coronavirus symptoms: 'Just tell us what he really has, because …

Dutch Covid hospital total up 2% with ICU’s treating a the most in 10 weeks
3 years, 4 months ago

Dutch Covid hospital total up 2% with ICU’s treating a the most in 10 weeks

NL Times  

The number of Covid-19 patients being treated in Dutch hospitals rose for the fourth straight day, according to patient coordination office LCPS. On average, hospitals took on 76 Covid-19 patients each of the past seven days, including 15 who went to intensive care. Figures from the LCPS show that 533 patients were admitted for Covid-19 the past seven days, down …

Dutch Covid hospital total falls four percent to 12-day low
3 years, 4 months ago

Dutch Covid hospital total falls four percent to 12-day low

NL Times  

The number of patients in hospital care for Covid-19 fell by four percent to 656, patient coordination office LCPS said on Wednesday. The current total included 210 patients in intensive care units, a net decrease of four after taking into account new admissions, discharges, and deaths. Though the figure is relatively low considering over 800 Covid-19 patients were in Dutch …

Hospitals to catch up on non-Covid care at night, weekends
3 years, 5 months ago

Hospitals to catch up on non-Covid care at night, weekends

NL Times  

Hospitals in the Netherlands will work nights and weekends to catch up on care delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Various hospitals are finding out which of their staff members are willing to work extra in order to catch up on surgeries in the evenings and over weekends. "To start, we will use six operating rooms on Saturdays for catch-up …

Dutch health service exploring Covid vaccinations without appointment
3 years, 5 months ago

Dutch health service exploring Covid vaccinations without appointment

NL Times  

Health service GGD is exploring whether it can allow Covid-19 vaccination without appointment at its locations, in an attempt to get the vaccination rate up. We have already looked at whether that would work in the country and we see that it works out well for some people," Jaap Donker, director of public health at GGD Utrecht, said to NU.nl. …

Dutch Covid hospital total plunges below 2,000; Lowest point in 10 weeks
3 years, 7 months ago

Dutch Covid hospital total plunges below 2,000; Lowest point in 10 weeks

NL Times  

Hospitals in the Netherlands were treating 1,899 patients with Covid-19 on Thursday, five percent fewer compared to the previous day. The total included 621 patients in intensive care, a net decrease of 16, and 1,278 patients outside of the ICU, down 87 compared to Wednesday afternoon. The combined total was 15 percent lower compared to a week ago, putting the …

Dutch Covid hospitalizations down 24% from peak; Lockdown easing more likely
3 years, 7 months ago

Dutch Covid hospitalizations down 24% from peak; Lockdown easing more likely

NL Times  

An average number of 237 people were hospitalized for Covid-19 in the Netherlands on each of the past seven days, a 24 percent decrease from the third wave peak set on April 22, according to data from the LCPS. The Dutch Cabinet is expected to press forward with a new round of lockdown easing next week if data used by …

Dutch healthcare system further strained amid Covid crisis
3 years, 7 months ago

Dutch healthcare system further strained amid Covid crisis

NL Times  

The pressure on regular hospital care increased slightly over the past week with 51% of hospitals saying they were not able to perform all of their scheduled procedures, compared to 49% last week. Nine hospitals indicated that they were no longer entirely able to provide critically important care which can be planned in advance within a six-week window, Dutch healthcare …

Covid hospital total back above 2,600; Infections rise with recovered data
3 years, 7 months ago

Covid hospital total back above 2,600; Infections rise with recovered data

NL Times  

Hospitals in the Netherlands were treating 2,611 people with Covid-19 on Wednesday, the fourth straight day that the patient total rose. At the same time some SARS-CoV-2 infections were found in another 8,713 people, the most in six days, after a data outage affected figures released on Monday and Tuesday. The hospital total went up by one percent, or a …

Northern provinces scaling down regular care as Covid infections rise
3 years, 9 months ago

Northern provinces scaling down regular care as Covid infections rise

NL Times  

Hospital in the Netherlands' northern provinces are starting to scale down regular care again as the number of coronavirus patients rise. According to the local acute care network AZZN, the pressure on healthcare in northern Netherlands is great at the moment, and will only increase in the coming weeks. At the moment, Noord-Nederland is getting about 180 new infections per …

Dutch ICU leaders want hospitals to start vaccinating against Covid-19 on Monday
3 years, 11 months ago

Dutch ICU leaders want hospitals to start vaccinating against Covid-19 on Monday

NL Times  

Frontline healthcare workers battling the coronavirus pandemic in hospitals across the Netherlands should be vaccinated starting on Monday, said country’s two leading experts in intensive care. He thinks the Netherlands should immediately begin vaccinating healthcare workers who treat Covid-19 patients, intensive care and emergency room staff, and ambulance personnel. “We believe that in healthcare, especially in situations where the pressure …

Pressure on hospital beds leads to 40% of operations being postponed
4 years ago

Pressure on hospital beds leads to 40% of operations being postponed

Dutch News  

Dutch hospitals carried out 26% fewer scheduled operations last week as the impact of the latest spike in coronavirus cases began to be felt. Analysis by the Netherlands Healthcare Authority said the proportion was expected to increase to 40% during the Christmas week as a result of Covid-19 patients taking up more hospital capacity and rising staff sickness levels. Medical …

Dutch hospitals to stop regular care with Covid cases rising into January
4 years ago

Dutch hospitals to stop regular care with Covid cases rising into January

NL Times  

The Dutch government announced an emergency measure on Tuesday to freeze regular and scheduled medical care at hospitals in the Netherlands because of the rapidly rising number of Covid-19 patients. On Monday, Dutch hospitals were treating 2,162 patients with Covid-19, up a third since the start of the month. The hospitalized patient total was expected to rise to 2,540 by …

Doctors argue for 'seasonal staff' in hospitals
4 years ago

Doctors argue for 'seasonal staff' in hospitals

NL Times  

Due to coronavirus, it will remain busy in Dutch hospitals in the coming years, especially during the winter. That is why they want to employ special “winter staff.” “The wave won’t be as big as it is now, but corona will return in the winter,” says Hans Kuijsten, intensive care doctor at the Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital in Tilburg. “You have to …

Coronavirus rolling average rises to 8,295; Hospital patients up 13% in a week
4 years ago

Coronavirus rolling average rises to 8,295; Hospital patients up 13% in a week

NL Times  

Some 8,496 more infections of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus were revealed by public health agency RIVM on Monday. The rising coronavirus data prompted the Dutch government to hold an emergency Cabinet meeting over the weekend and on Monday, after which the leaders of the political parties were updated by Prime Minister Mark Rutte. Ernst Kuipers, the head of the Dutch intensive …

Internists concerned by stagnating Covid infection numbers
4 years ago

Internists concerned by stagnating Covid infection numbers

NL Times  

The Dutch association of internists NIV is very concerned that the number of new coronavirus infections stopped falling. "The period in which more than a thousand new coronavirus patients are hospitalized every week has now been three weeks longer than in the spring and is still not over," the NIV said. According to NIV chairman Robin Peeters, the Netherlands is …

Second Covid wave putting care for chronically ill at risk
4 years, 2 months ago

Second Covid wave putting care for chronically ill at risk

NL Times  

Internists are very concerned about the increasing number of coronavirus patients in hospital, and the effect this will have for the quality of care for chronically ill patients, the Dutch association of internists NIV said to ANP. This means that consultation hours have to be shortened or scrapped at a number of hospitals, resulting in chronically ill patients not being …

Noord-Holland, Flevoland hospitals scaling down regular care
4 years, 2 months ago

Noord-Holland, Flevoland hospitals scaling down regular care

NL Times  

Almost all hospitals in Noord-Holland and Flevoland are scaling down their regular care by 20 percent, in an attempt to provide both coronavirus care and as much regular care as possible during the second wave of Covid-19 infections, the regional consultation on acute care ROAZ said, NOS reports. Despite the collaboration with the LCPS, the national center responsible for spreading …

More Covid restrictions may be needed this week says acute care leader
4 years, 2 months ago

More Covid restrictions may be needed this week says acute care leader

NL Times  

Should the persistent rise in new coronavirus infections continue, the Netherlands may need to introduce stricter measures to combat the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, said Ernst Kuipers, head of the Dutch acute care providers network. For the week ending September 27, the Netherlands averaged 2,551 daily new infections, prompting the Dutch government to roll out new social restrictions. The …

NL's hospitalized Covid patients enough to fill two hospitals, ICU boss says
4 years, 2 months ago

NL's hospitalized Covid patients enough to fill two hospitals, ICU boss says

NL Times  

The Netherlands currently counts enough hospitalized coronavirus patients to completely fill around two hospitals, Ernst Kuipers, head of the National Acute Care Network, explained to NU.nl. These are two very large hospitals full of patients who are seriously ill and need intensive care 24/7," Kuipers said to the newspaper. In order to keep regular care running, the national coordination center …

N. Holland hospitals start reopening Covid-19 care units; Regular care continues
4 years, 2 months ago

N. Holland hospitals start reopening Covid-19 care units; Regular care continues

NL Times  

Multiple hospitals across the province of Noord-Holland were reopening the special nursing wards for patients with Covid-19, including facilities in Amsterdam, Alkmaar, parts of the West Friesland region, and soon also in Zaandam, according to a hospital survey conducted by NH Nieuws. “We prefer to center the corona care in one place, so that the other care can continue," said …

Coronavirus outbreak at Amsterdam, Hague hospitals
4 years, 3 months ago

Coronavirus outbreak at Amsterdam, Hague hospitals

NL Times  

Two hospitals in Amsterdam and The Hague reported coronavirus outbreaks. At the Antoni van Leeuwnehoek Hhospital in Amsterdam, employees in the blood collection department contracted the virus. The Amsterdam hospital did not say how many of its employees tested positive for the virus, but according to AT5 it's nine of the 13 employees who work in the blood collection department. …

Covid-19 hospital patients fall to low levels but new coronavirus infections spike up
4 years, 4 months ago

Covid-19 hospital patients fall to low levels but new coronavirus infections spike up

NL Times  

Medical centers in the Netherlands were treating just 83 patients for Covid-19 on Sunday, a substantial decrease, according to patient coordination office LCPS. Although there were 26 fewer people being treated in Dutch hospitals on Sunday compared to the previous day, the number of new patients who tested positive for a SARS-CoV-2 infection shot up to its highest daily total …

Covid-19: Patient total low; Some regions with no patients at all
4 years, 5 months ago

Covid-19: Patient total low; Some regions with no patients at all

NL Times  

There were 91 people being treated for Covid-19 in Dutch hospitals on Saturday, an increase of three, patient coordination office LCPS said. While the patient total in and out of the ICU was still low, the Dutch healthcare system hit a milestone on Friday by having fewer than 90 patients admitted with Covid-19 for the first time since early March. …

Covid-19 patients in ICU at lowest level since March 5; Fewer than 100 in hospital
4 years, 5 months ago

Covid-19 patients in ICU at lowest level since March 5; Fewer than 100 in hospital

NL Times  

There were 15 people with Covid-19 being treated in intensive care on Thursday, the lowest number of patients since March 5. "We currently have the lowest COVID IC occupancy in Dutch hospitals since the beginning of March," said Ernst Kuipers, the head of the Dutch acute care providers network. While a month ago there were 289 people being treated for …

Dutch Covid-19 hospitalizations decreases by 3 to 115 patients
4 years, 5 months ago

Dutch Covid-19 hospitalizations decreases by 3 to 115 patients

NL Times  

There were three fewer people being treated for Covid-19 in Dutch hospitals on Tuesday, patient coordination office LCPS said. The decrease was entirely within the country's intensive care units, which were treating 21 people for the coronavirus disease, compared to 24 on Monday. At the same time, figures provided by nonprofit organization NICE suggested there may be about a dozen …

Dutch hospitals treating just 91 patients with Covid-19
4 years, 5 months ago

Dutch hospitals treating just 91 patients with Covid-19

NL Times  

There were just 91 people being treated on Thursday in Dutch hospitals for Covid-19, the respiratory illness caused by the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus. The 91 patients included 21 people being treated in intensive care, an increase of one, according to patient coordination office LCPS. "The stable situation in the volume of COVID patients in Dutch hospitals gives peace, and also …

Covid-19 patients down below a hundred in Dutch hospitals
4 years, 5 months ago

Covid-19 patients down below a hundred in Dutch hospitals

NL Times  

After two days of increases, the number of people being treated in intensive care for coronavirus disease Covid-19 fell to 20, a decrease of four. Outside of the ICU, there was a further decrease of five patients, taking those departments down to a combined 74, said patient coordination office LCPS on Wednesday. "The total number of COVID patients in Dutch …

Fewer than 125 Covid-19 patients in Dutch hospitals after 18% decrease
4 years, 5 months ago

Fewer than 125 Covid-19 patients in Dutch hospitals after 18% decrease

NL Times  

The overall medical situation in the Netherlands with regard to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic continued to improve on Friday, with patient coordination office LCPS confirming another important decrease in the number of patients with Covid-19 currently being treated in Dutch hospitals. There were 123 admitted patients in total receiving care for the coronavirus disease, including the fewest number of patients …

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